C.S. Sloan's Integral Strength

Various Split Training Options With the 3 to 5 Method for Mass, Strength, and Power      When it comes to serious strength and power training, one of the best ways to train is with the sub-maximal effort method, also known as “grease the groove” training, or to be nerdy about it, synaptic facilitation .  One of the simplest, easiest, and not to mention result-producing means to go about this is with the 3 to 5 method.      The 3 to 5 method is generally used with full-body workouts.  When I’ve written about it in the past, that’s the way that I’ve suggested doing it.  Here's how the 3 to 5 method works: Using big, compound, free-weight movements, you train 3 to 5 days each week.  You use 3 to 5 lifts at each session.  For each lift, you train with 3 to 5 sets.  On each set, you do 3 to 5 reps.  To top it off, you rest 3 to 5 minutes between each set.      It’s a great way to eas...

Gene Mozee’s Classic Secret for Building a Large, Magnificent Chest      I’m not sure when I first decided that I wanted to look like a bodybuilder.  Probably in the mid to late ‘80s, when I was 15 or 16 years old and just couldn’t stop reading all the bodybuilding magazines that hit the newsstand each month.  But the seed had been planted earlier, I suppose.  When I was 7, my dad took me to the drive-in movie theater to see Conan the Barbarian . I was enamored by the physical specimen that was Arnold.  (I think it was also the first time I witnessed my parents argue.  My mother was aghast that my father had taken me to a violent, nudity-filled movie.)  And then there was Bruce Lee.  I started taking Karate when I was 9, and soon I wanted to have the physique of the star of my favorite kung-fu flick, Enter the Dragon .  But eventually, and before too long, it was Schwarzenegger's body that I aspired to attain rather than L...